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The British astronaut will be running the London marathon while aboard the International Space Station.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has picked up particles of dust originating from outside our solar system.
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An octopus in New Zealand called Inky managed to escape his tank and make his way back to the ocean.
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An ambitious new project is aiming to make interstellar travel a reality within just three decades.
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The private space firm has finally succeeded in landing its Falcon 9 rocket on a barge out at sea.
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The US space agency has suggested that it would be possible to build a 'cheap' moon base by 2022.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a group of massive stars over 170,000 light years away.
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Hibernating mammals like lemurs could play a role in helping mankind venture out on deep space missions.
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Russia is working on a new propulsion system that has the potential to revolutionize space travel.
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The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) successfully launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan this morning.
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Europe and Russia are launching a joint mission next week to land a spacecraft on the surface of Mars.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has managed to take a photograph of the most distant object ever observed.
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A new type of propulsion system could see lasers being used to 'push' a spacecraft up to great speeds.
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The crew of Apollo 10 recalled hearing strange 'space music' while orbiting the far side of the moon.
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Just 16 months after the loss of its predecessor, Virgin's new spaceship 'VSS Unity' has been revealed.
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A mysterious illness saw hundreds of young children fall ill at a school in Bangladesh last month.
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Authorities in a small New Zealand town have been left perplexed by a peculiar series of biting attacks.
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The SpaceX CEO is hoping to see a manned mission to Mars happen within the space of just nine years.
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Scientists have warned that space debris collisions could have the potential to provoke armed conflict.
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Professor Stephen Hawking has warned that we could face annihilation if we do not colonize other worlds.